Coin, bill, and card case



Aug. 31, 1937.-

N. w. UMANSKY COIN, BILL, AND CARD CASE 2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Oct. 29, 1935 INVENTOR sky ATTO R N EY Aug 31, 1937- N. w. UMANsKY 2,091,662

com, BILL, .AND .CARD CASE Filed 001'.. 29, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 and bill holder in accordance Patented Aug. 31, 1937 OFFICE` j conv, BILL, AND CARD CASE Nat W. Umansky, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application October 29, 1935, Serial No. 47,231

- `6 Claims.

'Ihe present invention relates to coin, bill and card cases and more particularly to the type including a pocket mirror, the covering of which is provided with compartments.

'I'he principal object of this invention is to provide an article o1' the character described wherein the mirror is covered with sheet components in/novel combination to form various pockets and compartments of improved construction specially adapted to receive calling cards, coins )and paper money.

Another object is to provide an article of the class mentioned wherein the mirror is covered by sheet components in novel combination whereby a pocket is formed.. in whichconstruction, continued use of the pocket by insertion of articles therein and their extraction therefrom, will not cause said components to be loosened or become disengaged from one another or from the frame member of the unitary structure.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved means for holding bills, of a design and construction which is novel in the art.

Another object hereof is to provide an article oi thetype described of novel and improved construction, all the'parts of which are easyto as- Isemble in proper relation one to the other, and all onto the frame which secures them into an entity.

Various other objects and advantages will become manifest as the disclosure proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

. Fig. 1 shows the back of a. mirror provided with a pocket constructed in accordance with my present invention.

Fig. 2 is a section taken atline 2--2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows an embodiment including that of Fig. 1, provided also with coin compartments with the teachings of this invention.

Fig. 4 isv an enlarged exploded section taken at line 4Ivin Fig. 3. y

Fig. 5 shows the sheet component for covering the back of a pocket mirror.

Fig. 6 shows another sheet component used in the above constructions.

Fig. 7 shows the manner of assembling the aforesaid sheet components.

Fig. 8 shows a'modication of the article illustrated in Fig. 1, whereby a coin case is produced;

Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 show the sheet components used for the embodiment of Fig. 8.

Fig. 11 shows a. coin compartment member used in tne article illustrated in Fig. 3.

Fig. 12 shows the manner of assembly of the member of Fig. 11 with that of Fig. 6.y

Fig. 13 shows th'.4 manner of assembly of the cover ofFig. 5 with the members of Fig. 12.

Fig. 14 shows the development of the bill holder included in the embodiment of Fig. 3. K

Fig. 15 is a section through a closed bill holder.

In the manufacture of pocket mirrors, a sheet of metal, usually soft iron, is placed between a. silvered glass and a sheet of covering made of cloth, leather or other suitable material, with the ends of the latter overlapping the edges of the metal sheet. 'I'hen the edges of the metal sheet are lapped over the glass whereby a unitary structure is formed.

In the drawings, the numeral- 20 indicates a sheet member of leather or other appropriate material provided with a slit 2| of substantial length, through which lies another sheet member 22, preferably of identical material, and the same are mounted in the manner aforesaid by a` metal sheet 23 onto a mirror glass 24, which latter is thus covered and provided with a pocket opening fat said slit. Those ends of the sheet 22, which lie beyond the slit 2|, are of course'gripped by the metal member 23.

When a cover sheet 25 is provided with a waveslit 26, so as to form fingers 21 and 28, and when a sheet member 29 to be assembled with 25, in like manner as the sheets 20 and 22, is provided with a lace 30 having loops 3| to receive said iingers, and all assembled as aforesaid by an iron sheet onto a mirror glass, then we shall have the coin case shown in Fig. 10, wherein 32 is a line of stitching off centre to form two compartments to Vreceive coins of different size. The width of the fingers 2l and 28, are made less than the respectivediameters of the coins 33 and 34, so that the latter may be visible. Of course, the stitching may be omitted, and generally speaking, the several features anywhere herein shown maybe incorporated in ladies hand bags and similar articles. 45

In the foregoing embodiments, the metal sheet 23, at most, clinches two thicknesses of sheet material at any one of its edges, and it isto be especially noted that any greater number would be both impractical and objectionable for several reasons, Amost important of which is that a secure joint could not be effected. Therefore I provide a construction whereby a sheet member I which is so clinched, may receive in engagement become associated as the leaves of a book.

In the embodiment of Fig. 1, the sheet member 22, may just as well be substantially a rectangle. Now however, said member is cut to have the pair of co-planar spaced tongues 35 and 3G at the bottom thereof, having rounded corners as at 31, and aligned slits or notches 38 at opposite sides of said sheet member, whereby said tongues issue from member'22, each at an abruptly reduced width as at 39. It is evident that one or more other sheet members when provided with aligned slits or slots 40, may be engagingly received by the tongues 35 and 36, in the manner as shown in Fig. 12. The length of any slit 40 is slightly greater than the width of the tongues at 39, whereby the sheets become associated page fashion.

For the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, I have included one such additional sheet member designated generally by the numeral 4l, having a flap portion 42, with an outwardly extending centraltab 43, which latter is slit to form a lip 44. At the bend of said flap 42, the sheet 4I, has cut therein the oval holes 45, which permit the coins 46 in compartment 54, to be visible. The covering sheet 20, carries .a lace loop 41, to receive tab 43 and for engagement with the lip 44. Said sheet 20, near the-bottom edge thereof, has an eyelet 48 mounted, wherethrough passes a chain 49, or other flexible cord, which terminates at its exterior end in a ring or other stop member 50. The other end of this chain passes through the opening 5I which occurs at the line of junction of the sheet members 22 and 4|, and up through the compartment 52, the walls of which are such sheetI membe and is secured to a bill holder generally designated by the numeral 53, which is adapted to reside in said Ycompartment 52, taken out therefrom and again reset therein by pulling the chain 49.

This bill holder is of leather or other suitable exible material, and is fashioned out of a sheet slit to form the finger 55. about which bills are Wound hat. This sheet is folded at the base of the nger 55, whereby a book arrangement is formed, having in succession an uncut rst page 56 provided with a tab 51 extending integral therefrom and bent over, said finger 55, and that portion 58 of the sheet from which the finger was slit. 'I'he Aend of portion 53 is bent over to form a flap 59 to overlap both the nger 55 and-the page 56; the tab 51 serving as a closing means.

I find it advantageous that the bill holder 53, shall be slid out of its compartment 52, sufiicient for access, but that it shall always partially remain in said compartment. I therefore provide slits 50, whereby the holder 53 may be slidably mounted on track tongue 6 l shown dotted inFig. 6, the lower end of which is clinched as are the tongues 35 and 36. The numerals 62 and 83 indicate slits cut in sheet 22.

This invention is capable of numerous forms and various applications without departing from the essential features herein disclosed. It is therefore intended and desired that the embodiments shown herein *be* deemed illustrative and not restrictive, and that the patent shall cover whatever features of patentable novelty exist in the inventiondisclosed; reference being had to the following claims rather than to the specific description herein to indicate the scope of the invention.

I claim:

l. In an article of the class described, the combination with a metal sheet of a flexible sheet having a wave slit to form a tongue, a second flexible sheet positioned through saidv slit whereby one portion thereof is in surface contact with and lies between the slitted and metal sheets and. the remainder thereof lies over and in surface contact with the slitted sheet; opposite ends of the metal sheet being overlapped by said exible sheets and the ends of the metal sheet being folded over to clinch the flexible sheetsthereto, and a loop carried by said remaining portion of the second flexible sheet, adapted to receive the tongue of the first flexible sheet.

3. In an article of the class described, the combination with a metal sheet, of a flexible sheet having a slit of substantial length intermediate its ends and carrying a loop in the region of said slit, a second flexible sheet positioned through said slit whereby a portion thereof lies over and in surface contact with the first flexible sheet, the remaining portion of the second flexible sheet terminating in a pair of tongues each having a slit open at opposite ends of said second iiexible sheet and which slits are colinear, and a third flexible sheet provided with a pair of colinear spaced slits intermediate its ends wherein said tongues respectively lle whereby the second and third flexible sheets are engaged page-fashion at the slits in the second sheet; the third sheet lying between the first and second sheets; said third sheet extending at its free end through the slit inthe rst sheet and folded over, in which folded over portion a lip is provided; said lip being adapted to engage the loop aforesaid; the rst two sheets lying in contact with the metal sheet overlapping the edges thereof, and the ends of the metal sheet being folded over to clinch said overlapping flexible sheets thereto, whereby two pockets are formed.-

.4. In an article as in claim 1, wherein the first flexible sheet is provided with an opening below the slit therein, including a bill holder comprising a folded sheet slit in one'portion thereof to provide an extending linger for receivingvbills thereabout and the other portion terminating in an outwardly extending tab adapted for engagement in the opening in the first portion of the folded sheet, and a flexible cord member secured to said bill holder and lying between the flexible sheets with its free end passing through the aforesaid opening in the rst flexible sheet whereby the bill holder is inserted between the flexible sheets upon pulling the free end of said cord member.

5. In an article as in claim 1, wherein the second flexible sheet is provided with a loop of substantial length angularly disposed with respect to the slit in the first flexible sheet, including a bill holder comprising a folded sheet having openings near the fold thereof; said loop passing through said openings whereby the bill holder is slidably mounted on said loop for partial emergencefrom between the exible sheets. ing therein; said loop passing through such 6. In an article as'in claim 1, wherein the opening whereby said sheet member is slidably second flexible sheet is provided with a. loop of mounted on said loop lor emergence from besubstantial length angularly disposed with retween the flexible sheets. A

spect' to the slit in the rst flexible sheet. in-

cluding another sheet member having an open- NAT W. UMANSKY. 

